Session 1. Next steps in biobank networking and harmonisation
Speakers: Kurt Zatloukal, Jan-Eric Litton, Georges Dagher, Jeanne-Hélène di Donato, and Mylène Deschênes
Session 2. Biobank networking in Africa and the Middle East
Speakers: Hagen von Briesen, Muntaser E. Ibrahin, Khalid Siddiqui, Karen Meir, and Paul Bartels
Session 3. Challenges and opportunities in the provision of biospecimens for clinical trials
Speakers: Christian Bréchot, Peter Doran, Hans-Peter Deigner, Hartmut Juhl, and Philippe Van der Hofstadt
Session 4. Challenges and opportunities for museum biobanks & environmental specimen banks
Speakers: Ole Seburg, Jackie Mackenzie-Dodds, Jan Koschorreck, Olivier F. X. Donard, and Heinz Ruedel
Poster discussion session
30 mini-presentations in rapid succession
Session 5. Biobanking economics: how to justify and maintain long-term funding
Speakers: Jim Vaught, Laurence Mabile and Marc Reymond
Working groups: session 1
An introduction to existing ISBER working groups
Session 6. Ethical, legal and social issues presented by the advent of personalised medicine
Speakers: Herbert Gottweiss, Marianna Bledsoe, Elena Salvaterra, Filippo Franchini, and Simone Sommer
Session 7. Networking of veterinary biobanks
Speakers: Maura Ferrari, Ingrid Walter, Tomasz Stadejek, and Michał Fabisiak
Society forum
Find out about ESBB and what is in store for the future!
Session 8. Integrating research biobanking with the provision of healthcare services
Speakers: Michael Christman, Christian Chabannon, Peter Riegman, Rivka Ravid, and Roger Bjugn
Session 9. Museum biobanking and quality assurance/control: contributed papers
Speakers: Dominik Lermen, Rhiannon Lloyd, Sophie Visvikis Siest, Francesca Poloni
Working groups: session 2
An opportunity to join existing working groups, and to form new ones
Session 10. Novel technologies: contributed papers
Speakers: Rolf Muller, Anne-Lise Fabre, Jorge de Dios, Steve Picton, Simon Sheard, Jose Antonio Lopez-Guerrero
Session 11. Biobanks & biobank networks: contributed papers
Speakers: Elke Smits, Ann Cooreman, Michiel Verlinden, Frans van der Horst, Mª Angeles Muñoz Fernandez, Marie Zins
Special Session on Controversies in Biobanking: "The Bio-PIN Concept"
Speaker: JJ Nietfeld
Session 12. Scientific and technological advances that are helping to measure and to
maximise sample quality
Speakers: Uwe Oelmueller, Fiorella Guadagni, Paul Hofman and Fay Betsou